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Omnivorous
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Message 4 of 61 (335496)
07-26-2006 3:22 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Coragyps
07-26-2006 3:12 PM


Coragyps writes:
Don't you lot still execute kids or have you stopped doing that now?
We always wait 'till after their 18th birthday to kill 'em here in Texas.
Yeah, but you make up with quantity what you lack in freshness.

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Message 8 of 61 (335515)
07-26-2006 4:37 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by mark24
07-26-2006 4:17 PM


randman,
This seems a strange subject coming from someone who's religious book advocates death by stoning for something as trivial as adultery.
Mark
I thought the same thing, Mark.
Many years ago I left the employ of an East Asian government because they demanded that I copyedit the translation of a "letter to the editor" in that nation's chief English language newspaper, a letter that supported the House of Saud's beheading of a princess and a commoner because of their love affair.
I rejected Christianity's mindless violence long before I had heard of Islam's. Grown-up people learn that bad people come in all colors, and so abandon racism; grown-ups know that both good and bad claim the imprimatur of God, and so reject all holy writs for death and destruction. Fools, fanatics, and fascists believe their warrants are true, and no one else's.
It is one of the great ironies of American history--but a fulfillment of Christianity--that the evangelical right has become the political voice of bloodletting and death.

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